Harrah's New Orleans | |
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Location | New Orleans, LA 70130 |
Address | 8 Canal Street |
Opening date | October 30, 1999 |
Theme | French Quarter |
No. of rooms | 450 |
Total gaming space | 115,000 sq ft (10,700 m2) |
Notable restaurants | The Besh Steakhouse |
Casino type | Land |
Owner | Caesars Entertainment |
Renovated in | 2005, 2006 |
Website | Harrah's New Orleans |
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Harrah's New Orleans is a casino located in New Orleans, Louisiana, near the foot of Canal Street a block away from the Mississippi River. It is a 115,000 sq ft (10,700 m2) casino with approximately 2,100 slot machines, over 90 table games and a poker room.[1] There are several places to eat ranging from buffet style to fine dining. Since its opening in 1999 Harrah's has been renting nearby hotel rooms to accommodate its guests; currently, the newly renovated 202-room Wyndham Riverfront Hotel is providing such accommodations. In order to avoid leasing rooms, the casino opened its own 27-story hotel tower with 450 rooms across the street from the casino on September 21, 2006, just days ahead of the New Orleans Saints return to the Louisiana Superdome. It is the only land-based private casino with table games in the state by Louisiana law (there are other casinos in the state with their gambling facilities on floating boats and horse racingracinos with slot machines). It is referred to in state statute as 'the official gaming establishment'.[2]
- Parking at Harrah's New Orleans Casino 8 Canal St. With 113 table games, 20 poker tables, 1,873 slot machines, weekly tournaments and regular promotions, Harrah’s Casino New Orleans offers an endless array of options to try your luck.
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- We travel to New Orleans a lot to visit family. And while we're there, we visit Harrah's Casino too. This has resulted in monthly offers for free Harrah's hotel stays. So when planning our third NO trip for 2018 (yeah, I seriously meant we visit a LOT), we opted to stay here for.
- Answer 1 of 17: Do you guys think that gambling for 30 minutes is worth the free 24 hours of parking at Harrah's? We're not gamblers and I have no idea how much one might spend if they take it slowly.what is the least you can spend in half an hour.
- Harrah's New Orleans Hotel & Casino This neighborhood is a great choice for travelers interested in seafood, street performers and cafes – Check location 228 Poydras Street, Downtown New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70130, United States of America – This neighborhood is a great choice for travelers interested in seafood, street performers and cafes – Check location Excellent location.
The casino shut down in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 but reopened in the midst of Mardi Gras on February 17, 2006.
Parking is available onsite for a surcharge. Harrahs New Orleans Casino & Hotel has designated areas for smoking. Recreational amenities at the hotel include a fitness center. Harrah's New Orleans Hotel & Casino boasts the latest in slots, video poker and table games, plus exciting entertainment, restaurants and so much more.
The location of the casino was most recently previously the site of the Rivergate Convention Center, demolished in 1995. A short tunnel built as part of the canceled Vieux Carré Riverfront Expressway is used for valet parking and for an entrance passing underneath Poydras Street.
History[edit]
The casino is the brainchild of Christopher Hemmeter, a hotel developer in the Hawaiian Islands who returned to the mainland in 1991 when he began to develop casino gaming projects including the nearby River City Casino. His biggest project was a proposed $1 billion casino in New Orleans. Billed at the time as 'the world's largest casino'.[3] The original design resembled Monte Carlo's 1861 casino, intending to evoke the New Orleans 1885 Cotton Exposition and Chicago's 1893 World Columbia Exposition.[3] The developers estimated the casino would attract one million additional visitors to the city and would generate annual revenues of as much as $780 million, estimates that were based in part on the proven success of dockside gaming in the Mississippi Gulf Coast area.[3]
In 1993 a partnership of Hemmeter and Caesars World obtained the lease on the Rivergate property, which by law was the only place the land-based casino could be built in Louisiana, beating out a rival bid by Harrah's. In August 1993, however, the State Casino Board awarded the state's sole casino license to Harrah's and not the Hemmeter-Caesar's partnership. The impasse of one company owning the only license and another owning the only lease was resolved when the two entities formed a joint venture under pressure from then-Governor Edwin Edwards.[4] The new entity, known as 'Harrah's Jazz', established a temporary casino in the Municipal Auditorium in order to establish a cash flow while the main facility was under construction at the Rivergate. The temporary facility opened in May 1995 and a week later was closed due to a flood. The poor location of the site resulted in the actual gaming take falling 60% below projections at only $13.1 million per month.[4] Equally concerning was that 60% of gamers at the temporary facility were locals and not out-of-town tourists, undercutting the economic benefit backers hoped gambling would provide to the tourist industry.
Harrah's Casino New Orleans Parking Garage
Harrah's Jazz halted construction on the permanent facility at 3 AM the day before Thanksgiving, 1995 and laid off 1,600 construction workers and 2,500 casino employees, and filed for bankruptcy. Later, the project was taken over by Harrah's, who completed (albeit scaled-back with only the first floor in use to this day) and opened in late October 1999 Harrah's New Orleans Casino on the site of Hemmeter's project.[3]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Shapiro, Dean M. (23 June 2007). 'Two New Additions to Harrah's Fulton Street Mall'. New Orleans Online. Archived from the original on 29 November 2019.
- ^'Subpart B. Offenses Affecting General Morality'. Louisiana State Legislature. LA.GOV. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
- ^ abcdMcKinney, Louise (2006). New Orleans: a cultural history. Oxford University Press. pp. 165–166. ISBN978-0-19-530135-9.
- ^ abMyerson, Allen R. (2 June 1996). 'A Big Casino Wager That Hasn't Paid Off'. The New York Times. Retrieved 2 February 2010.
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504-533-6000
Location
8 Canal St.
New Orleans
LA
70130
29.95
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RV Parking and Camping Information
NO overnight RV Parking -- there may be some day RV parking in a lot nearby but it's not recommended to drive a large RV in this part of town. Class B may be ok, still no overnight parking.
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report from the Waite's, August, 2007
No camping, no overnight RV parking. We stayed at nearby Bayou Senette State Park and with National Park pass, electric/water hookup was only $9 per night. They have very nice bathrooms, but it is a nature reserve and I had to send my husband in to clear out the little frogs and geckos before I could shower as I am scared of them.... We were here for 2 weeks so we rented a car which I scored from Priceline.com for only $15 per day, so camping and car less than $25!!! We were 12 miles from downtown New Orleans.
Harrahs has only $15, 25 tables on weekdays and $25 $50 tables on weekends. Only 3 blocks from French Quarter, can park RV in nearby lot but not overnight. Their buffet was $15 lunch, $20 dinner and $25 weekends as they add steak and lobster to the great crab and shrimp at both lunch and dinner. The dessert area was outstanding with creme brulee, cheesecake, red velvet cake, scooped ice cream in 5 flavors and a chocolate fountain with fresh strawberries, marshmallows, pound cake, cherries, etc which they skewer and dip for you.
(Editor's Notes):
Here's a link to the Bayou Segnette State Park web site: http://www.crt.state.la.us/parks/ibyusegne.aspx
Also a commercial RV park near the french quarter: http://www.fqrv.com/
No camping, no overnight RV parking. We stayed at nearby Bayou Senette State Park and with National Park pass, electric/water hookup was only $9 per night. They have very nice bathrooms, but it is a nature reserve and I had to send my husband in to clear out the little frogs and geckos before I could shower as I am scared of them.... We were here for 2 weeks so we rented a car which I scored from Priceline.com for only $15 per day, so camping and car less than $25!!! We were 12 miles from downtown New Orleans.
Harrahs has only $15, 25 tables on weekdays and $25 $50 tables on weekends. Only 3 blocks from French Quarter, can park RV in nearby lot but not overnight. Their buffet was $15 lunch, $20 dinner and $25 weekends as they add steak and lobster to the great crab and shrimp at both lunch and dinner. The dessert area was outstanding with creme brulee, cheesecake, red velvet cake, scooped ice cream in 5 flavors and a chocolate fountain with fresh strawberries, marshmallows, pound cake, cherries, etc which they skewer and dip for you.
(Editor's Notes):
Here's a link to the Bayou Segnette State Park web site: http://www.crt.state.la.us/parks/ibyusegne.aspx
Also a commercial RV park near the french quarter: http://www.fqrv.com/
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